Senior O&P Technician: Precision Prosthetics & CAD/CAM

Westcoast Brace & Limb, Inc.; Temple Terrace, Florida, United States, Northern America, Americas; Hybrid; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Westcoast Brace & Limb, Inc. is seeking an O&P Technician to fabricate orthotic and prosthetic devices, including highly complex pieces, with minimal guidance.

You will handle day-to-day production, repairs, and adjustments while maintaining 6S standards and assisting practitioners with patient inquiries. The role requires critical assessment of work orders, thermoforming plastics, laminations, and ensuring cosmetic and joint alignment meets safety and industry standards.

Qualifications

• Trade Certificate from an accredited O&P program preferred.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Able to shape plastic or metal by bending, welding, or cutting.
• Ability to use rubber, felt, plastic, leather, wood, fabric, etc. to create necessary devices per specifications
• Ability to use hand tools, power tools, and machinery such as but not limited to: hammers, screwdrivers, anvils, welding equipment, drills, saws, sewing machines, routers, oscillating saws, pipe cutters, torque wrenches, sand blasters, belt sanders, vacuum pumps, sonic welder, etc.
• Independent in laminations
• Independent in basic and complex upper extremity prosthetic systems
• Independent in basic and complex lower extremity prosthetic and/or orthotic systems
• Experience with adjustable socket systems
• Experience with myoelectrics and/or microprocessors
• Experience with hip and shoulder disarticulations
• Ability to read diagrams and specifications

Responsibilities

• Critically assess work orders for missing or conflicting information.
• Thermoforming various plastics using drape forming and/or bubble/blister forming.
• Laminations with different materials, resins, and fabrics.
• Ensures cosmetics of orthosis/prosthesis, alignment of joints and/or components meet the internal standards as well as industry and safety standards.
• CAD/CAM experience and knowledge

Skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Independent worker

Read diagrams

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Trade Certificate (O&P) preferred

Tools

CAD/CAM

Job description

Westcoast Brace & Limb, Inc. is seeking an O&P Technician to fabricate orthotic and prosthetic devices, including highly complex pieces, with minimal guidance.

You will handle day-to-day production, repairs, and adjustments while maintaining 6S standards and assisting practitioners with patient inquiries. The role requires critical assessment of work orders, thermoforming plastics, laminations, and ensuring cosmetic and joint alignment meets safety and industry standards.